Provencal Stew - Daube Provençale | Provencal French Recipes Guide
Provencal Stew - Provencal Braised Beef Casserole - Estouffade à la Provençale or Daube Provençale = Atypical traditional dish from the French Riviera.
In fact, this dish has many different names in English and also in French, as they are so many recipes sometimes slightly different.
This dish is known in France as "Estouffade à la Provençale", "Daube Provençale" or "Ragoût Provençal" after the earthenware pot it was originally cooked in.
The meat usually used is Beef but you will discover a video below for a Vegetarian Stew Recipe.
You will also find tips for other stew recipes from other countries where fish, chicken and other can be used to prepare a succulent dish!
My Recipe below is a Provencal Braised Beef Casserole.
In every instance, this is a delicious rich fruity stew.
It makes a perfect winter meal and a wonderful Sunday-family-supper sort of dish.
Let's start Our Estouffade à la Provençale - Ingredients
Serves: 7/8 persons
1 Kg of meat (Beef)
1 L of red wine.
3 big spoons of olive oil.
2 sticks of parsley.
1 finely sliced onion.
2 crushed garlic cloves.
2 cloves.
1 peel of a sour orange.
100 g of salted bacon.
Recipe for Our Provencal Stew (with Braised Beef) - Estouffade à la Provençale
Cut the meat (lean beef but not dry) into pieces.
Put them to marinate the day before or a few hours before the cooking, in a deep dish, with a good red wine, spices (2 sticks of parsley, thyme, bay leaves), a finely sliced onion, the peel of an orange, some crushed garlic, some cloves, pepper, salt, and a little bit of nutmeg.
In a pot, put a little bit of lard (or some goose fat), a good splash of olive oil; when it is a little bit hot, put in pieces of diced salted bacon, a crushed onion and stir.
Then add the pieces of beef, already strained.
Cover the pot and stir for about twenty minutes.
Put the marinade, which has had time to cool down, in the pot.
Reduce while boiling.
Then lower the heat, cover and leave to cook at least 5 hours or more, according to your desire, in several seances.
The pot will be covered with a deep dish full of water, you can add some during the cooking but normally it is not necessary.
A Mediterranean Vegetarian Stew video and other ideas as Provencal Braised Beef Casserole!
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